Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A woman, wearing an extravagant dress and bonnet, stares at the viewer as she marks her place in a book.

Mrs. James Arnold

active 1839–1847

Narcisse Othon

French

Graphite on cream wove card; the surface prepared with a hard, polished white ground; highlights scratched through the graphite with a sharp tool; background shading seems to have been stumped or stippled through a circular honeycomb mesh about 1 mm. in diameter

Drawings